Re: Debian and GNOME, partnership with Helixcode?
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 08:31:01AM -0500, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
>
> > I'm sorry to disagree with you, the GNOME project *does*
> > distribute binaries (and packages too), looking
> > in http://www.gnome.org/start/ will give you pointers
> > to packages for Caldera, RedHat and SuSE distributed
> > from the GNOME site (ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/latest).
>
> Sadly, those packages are seldome updated, and there is not an ongoing
> effort to keep them up to date. I tried to assemble such a team, in
> the gnome-packaging-list, but that group never produced binaries.
The good solution would be to make Debian packaging rules snapshot-able,
so that you can build packages with appropriate version numbers, package
names and dependencies right out of CVS.
Currently, a Debian package is a Debian package, and it is not trivial to
make a package which looks different from the "official" package. The
debian-snapshot list was created to aim at a solution, but nothing came out
of it so far.
Thanks,
Marcus
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